South Korea's LG Display Co. Ltd.'s quarterly net profit more than trebled thanks to strong demand for flat screens, but future earnings will take a hit as the global economic downturn curbs consumer spending.
The wireless sector is down but far from out, according to an analyst from the wireless division of investment banker Rutberg & Company, LLC who described the sector as "schizophrenic."
A congressional commission established to monitor U.S.-China economic and security issues will probe China's domestic and foreign-funded research and development during a hearing scheduled for July 16.
In a continuing bleakly memory chip market, Qimonda hopes to gain an edge over the competition through its early adoption of GDDR5 technology for graphic memories. The upcoming transition to the buried-wordline technology shall increase the head start.
Intel has invested ¬24 million (about $37.5 million) into Berlin-based solar module manufacturer Sulfurcell GmbH. The company produces monolithic solar modules that feature a high efficiency. The move is part of Intel's clean tech investment strategy.
European chipmaker STMicroelectronics NV announced it has placed a multi-million euro order of 300-mm bonding, alignment and photoresist processing tools with EV Group (St. Florian, Austria), supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment.
NXP Semiconductors (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) is taking researchers at Radboud University in Nijmegen to court later this week in an attempt to stop them publishing their controversial report on the security aspects of the Mifare Classic chip, according to local
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has started volume production of its 1.8- and 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with a 128 Gigabyte (GB) storage capacity.
Italian alternative energy group Moncada s.r.l. (Aragona, Sicily) has become the latest to order Applied Materials' SunFab Thin Film Line, and will use the gear to establish its first photovoltaic (PV) module production facility.
Wireless chipmakers Broadcom and Qualcomm went before a U.S. appeals court Tuesday to argue a patent case that could result in BlackBerries and other advanced cell phones being banned for sale in the United States.
Agilent Technnologies has acquire another nanotech company as the instrumentation giant expands its porfolio of equipment for measuring nano-sized elements.
Memristors, the fourth passive circuit in electronic circuit theory, have moved a step closer to prototyping with the harnessing of a substrate material that could yield a new memory device by 2009.
